An effectiveness measure for ambiguous and underspecified queries

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5766 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 188-199

  Clarke, Charles L A ^a   Kolla, Maheedhar ^a   Vechtomova, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVENESS MEASURE; SIMPLE MODEL; USER NEED;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 70350576772     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04417-5_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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